Yahoo data breach (2012)

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2012-07-11, Yahoo was affected by a data breach. Approximately 453,427 accounts were exposed. In July 2012, Yahoo! had their online publishing service "Voices" compromised via a SQL injection attack. The breach resulted in the disclosure of nearly half a million usernames and passwords stored in plain text.

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Data breachResolvedAugust 1, 2012

Xiaomi data breach (2012)

In August 2012, the Xiaomi user forum website suffered a data breach. In all, 7 million email addresses appeared in the breach although a significant portion of them were numeric aliases on the bbs_ml_as_uid.xiaomi.com domain.

Victim: Xiaomi
Records: 7.1M

Data breachResolvedJuly 1, 2012

Dropbox data breach (2012)

In mid-2012, Dropbox suffered a data breach which exposed the stored credentials of tens of millions of their customers. In August 2016, they forced password resets for customers they believed may be at risk.

Victim: Dropbox
Records: 68.6M

Data breachResolvedMarch 22, 2012

Last.fm data breach (2012)

In March 2012, the music website Last.fm was hacked and 43 million user accounts were exposed. Whilst Last.fm knew of an incident back in 2012, the scale of the hack was not known until the data was released publicly in September 2016.

Victim: Last.fm
Records: 37.2M

Data breachResolvedMarch 1, 2012

Gamigo data breach (2012)

In March 2012, the German online game publisher Gamigo was hacked and more than 8 million accounts publicly leaked. The breach included email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes with no salt.

Victim: Gamigo
Records: 8.2M

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Xiaomi data breach (2012)

Dropbox data breach (2012)

Last.fm data breach (2012)

Gamigo data breach (2012)